Giant old trees are survivors. But their size and age do not protect them against everything. They face threats such as logging or intensifying drought and fire as the climate changes. Tasmania has ...

After a decade-long search, researchers have identified East Asia’s tallest known tree, the “Heaven Sword of the Da’an River, ...

Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit's eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but giant sequoias, the world's largest trees that can live ...

Giant redwood trees (Sequoiadendron Giganteum) – one of Earth’s biggest and longest-living tree species – are thriving in the UK. A new study, conducted by UCL researchers, found that the giant trees ...

Why it's incredible: Kilimanjaro hosts huge, endemic plants called giant groundsels. On the middle-altitude slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro grows a strange plant not found anywhere else on Earth. The ...

It’s dawn, it’s dark, and you don’t what kind of weather is waiting for you outside your tent. It doesn’t matter anyway. In rain, hail, sleet, snow, or blistering heat, you’re on the front lines, ...

When land plants were still the relatively new kids on the evolutionary block and the world’s tallest trees reached only a few feet in height, giant spires of life poked from the Earth. Fossils of ...

The Giant Eucalyptus Specimen Archive was made possible in part by funding from the Jayne Wilson Bequest from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Daniel Bar-Ness runs Giant Tree Expeditions, a ...